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Practice Questions
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What is the primary purpose of a memory buffer register?
💡 Hint: Think about the flow of data between CPU and memory.
What does the address bus do?
💡 Hint: Consider how instructions locate data.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is the function of the address bus?
💡 Hint: Consider what tells the CPU where to look for data.
A very wide memory organization may lead to inefficiency.
💡 Hint: Think about reading multiple instructions at once.
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Challenge Problems
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How might architecting a local computer system with 4 chips each of 1k lead to efficiency versus having one 4k chip?
💡 Hint: Think about how one large memory chip may impact instruction processing times.
Given a setup with two memory banks, each 2k, how would you optimize data access for speed?
💡 Hint: Consider how spreading out access could lead to better performance.
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